The following article was first posted in the HBR Blog in December 2011.
This article originally appeared in English in Forbes China Magazine.com in January 2012
The recent news out of south China about all of the deaths at one company is very disturbing. Taiwan owned Foxconn, one of the world’s largest makers of mobile phones, has already experienced 10 employee suicides this year.
(This article was extracted from my book, Business Leadership in China: How to Blend Best Western Practice with Chinese Wisdom, John Wiley and Sons, 2008. A version appeared in Chinese in CHO Magazine in July 2009).
(A version of this article appeared in Chinese in CHO Magazine in June 2009)
China has long been a family-run country. It has also been, and still is, primarily a rural nation. These two institutions, the family and the farm, are the core of China
(A version of this article appeared as a chapter in Business Leadership in China, Frank T.
(A version of this article is published in CHO Magazine in May 2009)
(A version of this article was published in Chinese in CHO Magazine in July 2007)